ABSTRACT
The two most disturbing facts about world population to-day, apart from its tremendous growth, are the unevenness of its distribution and the unevenness of its growth. When these startling facts are related to the distribution of natural resources between various countries and the means available for the support of their populations, the existing political and economic uneasiness, if not unrest among nations, becomes evident. Therefore, the relation between this whole set of socio-economic facts and the existing and potential politico-economic tensions which have led in the past, and may again lead in the future, to aggression and war, deserves to be examined.
